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Quick SummaryWith production issues affecting its Exynos chips and Qualcomm reportedly planning a price hike, Samsung may be considering a switch to a currently unannounced MediaTek processor for the next Samsung Galaxy S phones.
With production issues affecting its Exynos chips and Qualcomm reportedly planning a price hike, Samsung may be considering a switch to a currently unannounced MediaTek processor for the next Samsung Galaxy S phones.
With production issues affecting its Exynos chips and Qualcomm reportedly planning a price hike, Samsung may be considering a switch to a currently unannounced MediaTek processor for the next Samsung Galaxy S phones.
With production issues affecting its Exynos chips and Qualcomm reportedly planning a price hike, Samsung may be considering a switch to a currently unannounced MediaTek processor for the next Samsung Galaxy S phones.
WhenSamsungpicks the processors for its Galaxy S series phones, there are always two options: Qualcomm’s Snapdragons, or Samsung’s own Exynos. But next year’sSamsung Galaxy S25range may introduce a third, rather surprising chip supplier: MediaTek.
While Samsung doesn’t currently use MediaTek processors in its S series, it does use the firm’s systems in some of its other models – and reports suggest that a so-far unannounced MediaTek Dimensity processor could be faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. That’s the processor that might end up in your nextSamsung GalaxyS.
Why a new processor could power your next Samsung Galaxy S
Although it hasn’t been announced yet, the imminent MediaTek Dimensity 9400 was the subject of a leak earlier this year that showed it outperforming the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in benchmark tests.
The processor is believed to be based on the second generation of TSMC’s 3nm N3E manufacturing process and to be built around a new Cortex-X5 prime core that’s clocked to 3.4GHz. That prime core is expected to be teamed up with three Cortex-X4 performance cores and four Cortex-A720 efficiency cores and deliver significantly improved performance and energy efficiency over the current top-line Dimensity 9300, which powers phones such as the Oppo Find X7 and a bunch of Vivo models for the Chinese market.
According to the report, Samsung may be considering the Dimensity 9400 for two important reasons: according to a tipster quoted in the article, Samsung’s chip yields for the Exynos 2500 have just cracked the 40% mark, but Samsung needs that figure to hit 60% before it can begin mass production.
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With Snapdragons getting more expensive and more demanding, and the Exynos 2500 not yet doing the numbers Samsung wants to see, a Snapdragon-beating MediaTek chip starts to look awfully attractive.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 is expected to launch in January 2025.
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